{"id":8774,"date":"2021-10-05T14:12:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/?p=8774"},"modified":"2022-07-05T12:58:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:58:46","slug":"wordpress-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wordpress-users\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Handle WordPress Users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As your website grows, and more people will start having access to it, you\u2019ll need to understand how to manage WordPress users and their permissions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, whenever someone registers on your site, it gets assigned a specific role when the account is created. There are certain roles that you can assign to your WordPress users, in order to control what they can or cannot do inside your website.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In terms of permissions, you can allow users to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Write and edit posts<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create pages<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create categories<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moderate comments<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manage plugins<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manage themes<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manage other users<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Import\/export<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Setting up the dashboard<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Manage reusable blocks<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And here are the 5 roles that users can be assigned inside a WordPress website:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscriber<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contributor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Editor<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Administrator<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I&#8217;ll describe them one by one in one in a sec, but first, I want to show you how you can manage users inside the WordPress admin area.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s go.<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress Users and Where to Find Them<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can add new WordPress users or manage old ones in WordPress Dashboard -&gt; Users. <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8782 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image7-1.png\" alt=\"WordPress users in the Admin area\" width=\"148\" height=\"543\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When you select \u201cUsers\u201d, you\u2019ll see three options:<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8781\" src=\"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image6-1.png\" alt=\"WordPress users options\" width=\"137\" height=\"121\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>All users<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: here you can see all your users. You can apply filters based on their role, and start to edit any user you like.<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8778\" src=\"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image3-1.png\" alt=\"Editing WordPress users\" width=\"839\" height=\"189\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In our case, besides the \u201cEdit\u201d and \u201cView\u201d options, below every user\u2019s name, there\u2019s another option called \u201c2FA\u201d. This means that we\u2019ve enabled <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Multi-factor_authentication\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2 Factor Authentication<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, for website security reasons. For this, we are using a plugin called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wordfence\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wordfence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Add new<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: here you start adding new WordPress users for your website.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Profile<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: the users can see their profile here. Several preferences can be set here such as default editor, contact info, password setup, social media profiles, etc.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8780\" src=\"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image5-1.png\" alt=\"Edit user profiles\" width=\"943\" height=\"790\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress User Roles Detailed<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-8783 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/10784.jpg\" alt=\"WordPress User Roles\" width=\"1300\" height=\"929\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now that we know where to edit and add new WordPress users, let\u2019s see what are their capabilities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress Subscribers<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Subscribers can log in to your WordPress site and update their user profiles. They can\u2019t edit pages or posts or make any other changes in the WordPress admin area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When do you need this WordPress user? Well, when you have a membership website (eg: courses website), an online store, or any other type of website that requires users to create an account and log in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress Authors<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress users with the author role, have the same capabilities as the contributors. What is extra is the fact that they can publish their posts and add files to their posts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A user with Author role can manage only his\/her own posts (create and save them as drafts, edit, publish, delete their own content). They can also upload and add media to their posts.<br \/>\nAn Author cannot edit or delete posts written by others.<br \/>\nThey can upload files (e.g. images) and delete what they have previously uploaded.<br \/>\nAuthors cannot create new categories, but they can choose from the existing categories and they can add tags to their posts.<br \/>\nThey do not have access to site settings, neither can they manage themes or plugins for the website.<br \/>\nAn Author can view comments, but they cannot moderate them (approve, delete, etc.).<br \/>\nThis is a low-risk role, as Authors cannot make modifications to the website. They only have control over their own content.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress Contributors<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>This role is even more restricting than the Author role.<br \/>\nA Contributor can add, edit or delete their own posts, but they cannot publish them, waiting for reviews from other users with extended capabilities.<br \/>\nThey can read all posts, independently of who writes them.<br \/>\nThey can view all comments, but they cannot moderate them (approve, edit or delete them).<br \/>\nContributors cannot add images or upload other files to their posts, which is quite restrictive.<br \/>\nThey cannot create categories; however, they can choose from existing categories. Instead, they can add tags to their posts.<br \/>\nThe Contributor role is appropriate for guest authors, who are sporadically contributing to the website content and don\u2019t need to constantly publish articles on the website.<br \/>\nA Contributor doesn\u2019t have access to site settings, consequently, they cannot manage themes or plugins.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress Editors<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This role gives full control over posts and comments: from editing to publishing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Editor role has limited capabilities; however, they have full control over content within the website.<br \/>\nThis role is destined to users that are responsible with the content in a website. They can manage content: adding articles, editing articles of theirs or articles of others, deleting articles. This is also valid for pages.<br \/>\nAlongside managing posts and pages, Editors can moderate comments (read, approve, delete, edit comments to posts).<br \/>\nThey can manage categories for posts, both adding new categories and editing existing categories.<br \/>\nEditors can manage tags for posts, both adding new tags and editing the existing list of tags.<br \/>\nThey cannot manage user roles for other members of the team. They do not have access to site settings, so they cannot make modifications to the code, or themes, or plugins.<br \/>\nAn Editor has no access to widgets; thus they cannot manage them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">WordPress Administrators<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These WordPress users are the most powerful ones and the riskiest ones. Be careful who you give this type of access to.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Administrator has full control over the website. He\/She has the possibility to manage site settings, content in the website, and user roles.<br \/>\nAn Administrator manage other users, including other administrators. They can create new user accounts, edit or delete them.<br \/>\nThey are able to add, activate or remove themes for the WordPress website, and thus, make modifications into the website.<br \/>\nAdministrators can add, activate or delete plugins for the website.<br \/>\nThey are responsible for the management of the content published on the website. They have access to posts and pages, they can add posts and pages, edit them or delete them completely. Also, they can add categories and tags and assign them to posts, accordingly.<br \/>\nAn Administrator can manage menus of the website and widgets, as well.<br \/>\nThey are capable of editing code for the website and implement additional CSS for advanced customizations to the website pages.<br \/>\nAdministrators can install updates for the website, such as WordPress upgrades, new versions of themes or plugins.<br \/>\nThey can create backups for the website.<br \/>\nThey have full control over security and privacy related to the WordPress website.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>To spice it all up: enter super-admins.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This WordPress user is only available on a WordPress multisite network. WordPress allows you to create multiple websites using the same WordPress installation. For example, a school might want to run separate websites and manage them in the same dashboard. This would mean that a super admin will have access to all of these sites, and even delete them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How to Customize WordPress User Permissions and More<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most websites out there don\u2019t need extra capabilities for their users and can work easily with the default users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But what if you need some custom capabilities?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Well, it\u2019s time to talk about plugins. Here are the top 3 most popular plugins that allow you to manage WordPress users.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/members\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Members \u2013 Membership &amp; User Role Editor Plugin<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8776\" src=\"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image1-1.png\" alt=\"WordPress user role plugin\" width=\"852\" height=\"330\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/members\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Active installs:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &gt;200.000<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Plugin features<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Role Editor<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Create, edit, and delete roles as well as capabilities for these roles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple User Roles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Assign multiple roles to a user.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Explicitly Deny Capabilities<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Deny specific capabilities to specific user roles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clone Roles<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Clone existing roles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content Permissions \/ Restricted Content<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: allow or restrict permission to certain website content.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortcodes<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: use shortcodes to control who has access to content.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/ultimate-member\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ultimate Member \u2013 User Profile, User Registration, Login &amp; Membership Plugin<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8779\" src=\"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image4-1.png\" alt=\"Ultimate Member \u2013 User Profile, User Registration, Login &amp; Membership Plugin\" width=\"1011\" height=\"335\" \/><\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/ultimate-member\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Active installs:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &gt;200.000<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Plugin features<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Front-end user profiles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Front-end user registration.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Front-end user login.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Custom form fields.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conditional logic for form fields.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Drag and drop form builder.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">User account page.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Custom user roles.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Member directories.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">User emails.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Content restriction.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Show author posts &amp; comments on user profiles<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-members\/\">WP-Members Membership Plugin<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8777\" src=\"https:\/\/colibriwp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/image2-1.png\" alt=\"WP-Members Membership Plugin\" width=\"964\" height=\"379\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"text-align: center; background-color: transparent; font-family: 'open sans', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-members\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Source<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Active installs:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &gt;80.000<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Plugin features<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Restrict or hide posts, pages, and custom post types.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create custom registration and profile fields.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notify admin of new user registrations.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hold new registrations for admin approval.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortcodes for login, registration, content restriction, and more<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Create powerful customizations with more than 120 action and filter hooks.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A library of API functions for extensibility.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wrapping Up<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the end, I wanted to show you in a more friendly way the available WordPress users and their capabilities. So I created a table for you.<\/span><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wpdt-c row wpDataTableContainerSimpleTable wpDataTables wpDataTablesWrapper\n\"\n    >\n        <table id=\"wpdtSimpleTable-5\"\n           style=\"border-collapse:collapse;\n                   border-spacing:0px;\"\n           class=\"wpdtSimpleTable wpDataTable\"\n           data-column=\"2\"\n           data-rows=\"19\"\n           data-wpID=\"5\"\n           data-responsive=\"0\"\n           data-has-header=\"0\">\n\n                    <tbody>        <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-9C27B0 wpdt-tc-FFFFFF\"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A1\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"0\"\n                    style=\" width:36.065573770492%;                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        WordPress user                    <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-9C27B0 wpdt-tc-FFFFFF\"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B1\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"0\"\n                    style=\" width:63.934426229508%;                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Capabilities                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-EDDA6F\"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A2\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"1\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Subscriber                    <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B2\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"1\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Read                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-F7B1B0\"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A3\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"2\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Contributor                    <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B3\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"2\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Subscriber capabilities                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-F7B1B0 wpdt-empty-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A4\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"3\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                                            <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B4\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"3\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Create draft posts                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-A4ADDE\"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A5\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"4\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Author                    <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B5\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"4\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Contributor capabilities                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-A4ADDE wpdt-empty-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A6\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"5\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                                            <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B6\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"5\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Manage and publish own  posts                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-D5F4D8\"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A7\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"6\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Editor                    <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B7\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"6\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Author capabilities                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-D5F4D8 wpdt-empty-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A8\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"7\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                                            <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B8\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"7\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Manage and publish others' posts                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-D5F4D8 wpdt-empty-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A9\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"8\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                                            <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B9\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"8\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Manage pages (private included)                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-D5F4D8 wpdt-empty-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A10\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"9\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                                            <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B10\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"9\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Publish pages (private included)                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            <tr class=\"wpdt-cell-row \" >\n                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell wpdt-bc-D5F4D8 wpdt-empty-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"A11\"\n                    data-col-index=\"0\"\n                    data-row-index=\"10\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                                            <\/td>\n                                                <td class=\"wpdt-cell \"\n                                            data-cell-id=\"B11\"\n                    data-col-index=\"1\"\n                    data-row-index=\"10\"\n                    style=\"                    padding:10px;\n                    \"\n                    >\n                                        Manage categories                    <\/td>\n                                        <\/tr>\n                            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